Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...

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15. oldal JEREMY TAYLOR . reason , LOCKE . There is no action of man in this life , which
Actions have their preference , not according | is not the beginning of so long a
chain of conto the transient pleasure or pain that accompanies or follows them ...

36. oldal LOCKE . Sir W . TEMPLE . In the philosophy of history the moderns have ! It was
the custom of those former ages , in very far surpassed the ancients . It is not , in -
| their over - much gratitude , to advance the first deed , strange that the Greeks ...

42. oldal LOCKE . possible in a calmer state of mind to command . ROBERT HALL : The
fair way of conducting a dispute is to Preface to Hall ' s Help to Zion ' s Travellers .
exhibit , one by one , the arguments of your opponent , and , with each argument
...

51. oldal LOCKE . Whosoever is found variable , and changeth Some ideas which have
more than once of manifestly without manisest cause , giveth susfered
themselves to the senses have yet been little picion of corruption : therefore ,
always , when ...

52. oldal LOCKE with such bewitching tenderness and rapture , that it might have been
dangerous to have given The constraint of receiving and holding opinthem a
reading , ions by authority was rightly called imposition . ADDISON : Spectator ,
No .

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110. oldal - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

83. oldal - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

32. oldal - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.

343. oldal - But the sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names, hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration ; and to hold long subsistence, seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and...

387. oldal - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.

82. oldal - If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.

454. oldal - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.

462. oldal - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...